بلوچستان کے عالقے سبی میں زلزلے کے جھٹکوں سے زمین لرز اٹھی، جس سے علاقے میں خوف و ہراس پھیل گیا۔ زلزلہ پیما مرکز کے مطابق زلزلے کا مرکز سبی سے تقریباً 40 کلو میٹر جنوب مشرق میں تھا اور اس کی شدت 3 ریکارڈ کی گئی۔ زلزلہ کی گہرائی 15 کلو میٹر تھی جس کے […]
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Saturday issued a written order restraining the arrest of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi in any pending case, while hearing a petition seeking details of all FIRs registered against him. A division bench comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Naeem Anwar heard the chief minister’s petition. During the proceedings, […]
Pakistan’s core issue is not India, ‘the Board of Peace’, or its participation in the resolution of the Palestinian conflict. Our core issue today is Afghanistan, its future, what we are doing about it and the solution that we seek to address the problem of Afghanistan. Two things got me thinking and writing about Afghanistan. […]
Can he change course? The world around Adiyala is transforming at a dizzying pace. Khan and his party are staring into a wall of uncertainty that shrouds their future and leaves them with increasingly shrinking options. This past week was marked by developments that have cemented the new order in Pakistan with greater strength. The […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his seminal work The Social Contract (1762), observed that “Man is born good; society corrupts him.” Criminal behaviour, therefore, is not innate but a product of social decay. When inequality festers, justice fails and moral values decline, society itself begins to create the very criminals it condemns. Crime does not emerge in […]
It would not be inaccurate to say that Pakistan is already experiencing a demographic emergency, but the upcoming years are set to exacerbate this crisis even further. With a population already exceeding 241 million, projections warn of a surge past 300 million by 2030 and potentially touching 400 million by 2040. This rapid expansion should […]